Let’s Get Weird: August 18

It’s Friday, the country seems to be in complete disarray, and alcohol is readily available in the United States of America, so let’s get weird.

If you supported Trump during the election, which is the vast majority of you I’m pretty sure, do you still support him? Why or why not? We’re just over half a year into his term and he’s done and said plenty to either firm up your backing of him or make you flip on him. I’m just curious and want to get a pulse on the TFM reader base.

Sign up for our newsletter, TFM Daily Minutes. It’s a perfect snapshot of the prior day’s content. It includes a couple quick summaries of the day’s news stories, Babe of the Day, the best pictures and videos from our Instagram feed, and links to our podcasts. Some throwback shit, too.

Call me crazy, or speculate about my family’s ties to Wall Street, but I voted for Hillary. It was a tough decision for me, as I was closely torn between the two candidates. I noticed that Trump’s rhetoric struck a chord with quite a few people, including some in my own left-leaning family. I attributed his popularity to the disenfranchisement of a large portion of the middle and upper classes by a healthcare system that does not suit today’s America or our capitalist agenda. The constant stream of attacks by the media, even over matters that most would consider trivial, only added fuel to the fire. The only reason I chose the other candidate was that Trump seemed impulsive, which I noted as a sign that he was not very thorough, and lacked follow-through.

However, since he was elected, and since I’ve seen the astounding spur of investor confidence created by his stead, I have stood behind him 100% as the President of our nation. I believe that his presence alone at his post has given many people the confidence to work harder and produce more value – a suspicion shared by the investors who’ve bid up prices. Interest rates are rising again, as a sign that businesses are expected to be more successful during the next eight years. The Affordable Care Act was a big part of the problem, but not the whole problem. Its repeal must come with many concessions, and cannot be one-sided. That is just how the political game works. One side is thus prevented from making reckless moves in favor of a minority agenda.

I continue to support President Trump, because I believe that he has changed attitudes in our country. He inspires confidence that our legal system, inherited from the system of English common law, will not degenerate into socialism. And that confidence brings a higher standard of work ethic to American businesses. People are coming to the forced realization that there is no such thing as a utopia, and this is incredibly good for our society. While many condemn this reality as “authoritarian,” the media has not touched the issue in a way that would invite violence. And much to the dismay of the left-leaning media, the President has done little to invite conflict and has done a lot to quell uprisings – at least those that are not synchronized with Washington’s new agenda. And all of the hype about possible nuclear war with North Korea is little more than political posturing on both sides.

Trump is an embarrassment to the country. The white house is a fucking dumpster fire right now, he is prodding North Korea on twitter over and over, pretty much begging them to send a missile to Guam, pretty much blamed the people fighting the nazis in Charlottesville for what took place there, and just keeps talking out of his ass in general. Not to mention he has passed zero major legislation, pretty massively escalated with Russia by imposing new sanctions for no fucking reason, as well as violating the nuclear deal with Iran. He’s threatening military intervention in Venezuela now as well, in case you missed that this week. I can understand why people voted for him, I really can (contrary to what most liberals will tell you), he gave people the facade of change, Hilary, pretty openly, brought massive corruption. At this point though, you’re an apologist, and frankly intellectually lazy, or just plain ignorant, if you still support him.

The media is definitely out to get him and it’s getting ridiculous, I don’t recall Obama saying anything after months of everything that went on in Ferguson or even in Dallas when those officers were killed he said “most of the police force are good people”, as if it would have been justified if it were other officers, hypocrisy at its finest. So far he has been great to loosen a lot of restrictions and curtailments Obamas administration set in place, which was basically his main goal.

He also sold weapons to a terror state, attempted to expand the war on drugs (which is a violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution supported by the unenumerated rights clause of the Ninth Amendment) has shown to be deeply in the pockets of various private sectors, and has wasted a fuckton of money fighting other countries’ wars. Sound familiar? That’s because both the Republicans and Democrats in high office are all corrupt cunts.

Ah yes, virginator. Voting is, for me, merely a symbolic gesture. But the true nature of voting is manipulating the working classes into choosing between two candidates which, for them, are both losers.

As someone who works on an options exchange, the only thing most market makers see as the driving force behind this market surge is investor confidence in said market surge, which has been a self perpetuating loop. Everyone on the floor knows we’re inflating a bubble right now in the DOW and S&P, and its no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘when’ it’ll pop. The fact that we hardly saw any downturn the day the healthcare debacle was voted down in the senate, something that affects 1/6th the US market, is strong evidence of the bubble we’re in being boosted by bullish confidence

Bet you won’t say that to my face, swing and a miss there champ…blah blah blah. Just shut the fuck up for once. All the same pathetic shit everyday. “Whore of the day’s butthole is begging for my cock and I’ll help myself”, just give it a rest you fucking mouth breathing high schooler.

Kid, you literally talk more shit than anyone on this site and back absolutely none of it up. Every time I call you out on it you just run back into your mom’s basement like a little bitch. How about for once in your life you man up and do something. You got a problem? Say it to my face and I’ll more than happily beat your sorry ass